Essays about: "Delhi"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 43 essays containing the word Delhi.

  1. 16. Frames in a social movement for safe public spaces : Problems meeting new solutions

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : David Karlström; [2017]
    Keywords : safe public spaces; social movement; frames; women;

    Abstract : Safety in public spaces has become an issue of increased concern and attention in India, after incidents of sexual harassment and violence against women. The need for safe public spaces was formulated in the civil society in New Delhi and can be described as a social movement. READ MORE

  3. 17. Creating Urbanity – Destroying Cultures : Relationships Between Public and Private in Kathputli Colony, New Delhi

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Konstvetenskap

    Author : Tove Hansson Grönroos; [2017]
    Keywords : Informal; slum; public; urban; architecture; open; closed; private; modernism; high-rise;

    Abstract : Through the story of Kathputli Colony, thiss essay; Creating Urbanity – Destroying Cultures, Relationships Between Public and Private in Kathputli Colony, New Delhi, India, discusses various degrees of public and private in urban architecture. It compares the architecture of the former Kathputli Colony with the new architecture proposed for the site. READ MORE

  4. 18. "Please, please, please let me reach safely" - Exploring the fear of sexual violence in Delhi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Camilla Göth; [2016]
    Keywords : Gender; masculinities; femininties; sexual violence; fear; space; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Since the gang rape of a physiotherapist student in Delhi 2012 the media reporting on sexual violence has increased by 30 percent. Several studies have looked at how media report on sexual violence in India, but very few have looked at the increased news reporting from a critical point of view. READ MORE

  5. 19. I am still unlearning it : A qualitative study of how Indian journalists perceive their reality from a gender perspective

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : Lisa Andreasson; Johanna Olsson Jönsson; [2016]
    Keywords : India; New Delhi; Bangalore; Media; Journalism; Newspapers; Agenda setting; Structuration theory; Performativity; Intersectionality; Equality; Giddens; Butler; Media ethnography; Qualitative interviews; Feminist media theory.;

    Abstract : India experienced huge media coverage from all over the world associated with the Nirbhaya-case in 2012, when a young middleclass girl was brutally raped in a bus by five men in Delhi. After this horrifying incident a lot of demonstrations followed all over India. READ MORE

  6. 20. Women and Maids : Perceptions of domestic workers, house work and class among young, progressive, middle-to-upper class women in Delhi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Otso Harju; [2016]
    Keywords : Domestic workers; Delhi; Class; Gender roles; Reflexivity; Social change; Family; India; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses ten indepth interviews on domestic workers, class and gender roles with ten young, politically inclined and often adamantly feminist women towards the upper end of the Indian class spectrum. It aims to deepen the understanding of employerworker relations and gendered domestic roles in contemporary Indian households. READ MORE